QA Contracts in Hounslow

Quality Assurance (QA)
West London > Hounslow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hounslow requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 24 23
Rank change year-on-year +19 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing QA 15 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hounslow 19.48% 2.96% 3.47%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 57.69% 23.53% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 2
10th Percentile £364 £366 £399
25th Percentile £384 £372 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £388 £463
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -16.22% -1.60%
75th Percentile £406 £422 £491
90th Percentile £489 £461 £496
West London median daily rate £395 £388 £513
% change year-on-year +1.94% -24.39% +5.13%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Hounslow

QA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Hounslow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 26 17 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hounslow 33.77% 12.59% 9.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 11 5
10th Percentile - £125 £365
25th Percentile £225 £281 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% -25.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £407 £453 £530
90th Percentile £512 £500 £590
West London median daily rate £400 £388 £575
% change year-on-year +3.23% -32.61% +7.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.00
Median hourly rate £18.13 £18.13 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -74.10% +152.25%
75th Percentile - - £82.50
90th Percentile - - £87.00
West London median hourly rate £18.13 £23.80 £64.00
% change year-on-year -23.82% -62.81% +250.68%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hounslow

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hounslow.

Job vacancy trend for QA in Hounslow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hounslow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA in Hounslow.

Daily rate trend for QA in Hounslow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Hounslow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Hounslow over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Hounslow

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hounslow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in Hounslow.

Hourly rate trend for QA in Hounslow

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Contract Job Locations in Hounslow

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Hounslow region over the 6 months to 1 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Feltham -2 1 £725 +93.33%
Osterley - 1 - -
Chiswick - 1 £225 - 2
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West London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hounslow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) GitHub
2 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.67%) BrowserStack
2 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (6.67%) Sauce Labs
2 1 (6.67%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) JUnit
1 7 (46.67%) Selenium
2 5 (33.33%) JIRA
3 2 (13.33%) Appium
3 2 (13.33%) Git
3 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
4 1 (6.67%) HP UFT
4 1 (6.67%) Postman
4 1 (6.67%) Robot Framework
General
1 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Analyst
1 4 (26.67%) QA Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) QA Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Angular Developer
3 2 (13.33%) C++ Developer
3 2 (13.33%) C++ Software Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Product Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Product Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Release Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Test Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Web Editor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Angular 2
1 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
1 2 (13.33%) CSS
1 2 (13.33%) HTML
1 2 (13.33%) JSON
1 2 (13.33%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) Kafka
2 1 (6.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Android
1 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) Manual Testing
2 7 (46.67%) Regression Testing
2 7 (46.67%) Security Testing
2 7 (46.67%) Test Automation
3 6 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (20.00%) SDLC
6 2 (13.33%) Clean Code
6 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (13.33%) Kanban
6 2 (13.33%) OOP
6 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
6 2 (13.33%) Scrum
6 2 (13.33%) Software Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Java
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) C++
2 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Degree
1 7 (46.67%) ISTQB
2 6 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.67%) MBA
3 1 (6.67%) OCA
3 1 (6.67%) OCP
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle
1 1 (6.67%) Splunk